L'osservazione, l'atto e la forma. L’insegnamento dell’architettura nella Scuola di Valparaíso

Abstract

For over sixty years, the Valparaiso School has represented a singular episode in the international architectural scenario, and constitutes one of the most significant and astonishingly creative cultural phenomena in Latin America today, acknowledged for its original ideas and a capacity to conceive its own language. In this article, an attempt will be made to describe the peculiarities of its teaching by relating three essential moments of its didactic approach:  observation ,  act  and  form .